Notes
to tyhe Poems in THE DIRGE (IM 15, 1-33)
The Dirge 2. "The blow fell..." (9x3,
1x4; FD 2)
[1]
This poem (IM 15/2) was published in Canadian
Forum XII (April 1932) as no. II of "From
the Dirge" with minor discrepancies in
punctuation.
The Dirge 4. "So, this is where you..." (5x4; FD 5,-st.2)
[2]
This poem (IM 15/4) was published in Canadian
Forum XII (April 1932) as no. V of "From
the Dirge" with some discrepancies affecting
punctuation. Also, stanza two is omitted.
Stanza 3, l. 4 reads " what you
used to be".
The Dirge 5. "They tell us that..." (Sonnet; FD 6)
[3]
This sonnet (IM 15/5) was published, in identical
form, in Canadian Forum XII (April
1932) as no. VI of "From the Dirge".
The Dirge 7. "How can..."
[4]
This poem (IM 15/7) was published in Canadian
Forum XII (April 1932) as no. VII of "From
the Dirge" with the following minor discrepancies
in the last stanza: " voice"
in l. 1 is followed by a [:], and the quotation
marks are omitted in l. 2-4.
The Dirge 10. "How much..."
[5]
This poem (IM 15/10) was published in Canadian
Forum XII (April 1932) as no. VIII of "From
the Dirge" with one minor discrepancy in
punctuation: after "die" in stanza
3, l. 2, the [,] is omitted.
The Dirge 13. "No, never shall I..."
[6]
This poem (IM 15/13) is also present in the
Notebook (NB 8) with two minor discrepancies
in wording.
The Dirge 14. "You look at me..."
[7]
This sonnet (IM 15/14) is present in the Notebook
(NB 3), where it lacks the dedication and
is heavily corrected to read as typed here.
Grove chose it for his Selections (S7).
The Dirge 15. "She lives in me..."
[8]
This poem (IM 15/15) is also present in the
Notebook (NB 5) with minor discrepancies.
The Dirge 16. "Oh my dear child..."
[9]
This poem (IM 15/16) is also present in the
Notebook (NB 6) with minor discrepancies,
except for a deleted stanza between st. 4 and
5 (compare to st.6 below!).
[10]
Crossed out: "And here I sit, forsaken
in my chair/Baffled to understand that days
go by;/And as I hold converse with the air,/Forgive
me, but I wish it had been I." (see st.
6).
The Dirge 17. "Tulips..."
[11]
This poem (IM 15/17) was published in Canadian
Forum XII (April 1932) as no. IX of "From
the Dirge" in identical form. It features
in the Notebook (NB 11) with two minor
changes in wording.
The Dirge 18. "I sometimes think..."
[12]
This poem (IM 15/18) was published in Canadian
Forum XII (April 1932) as no. X of "From
the Dirge" with the following discrepancies:
after "O" in stanza 3, l. 1 there
is a [,], and "I remain..." in st.
4, l. 3 reads "I remained...".
The Dirge 19. "I grow a sacred lily..."
[13]
This poem (IM 15/19) was published in Canadian
Forum XII (April 1932) as no. XI of "From
the Dirge" with the following discrepancies:
after "statuesque" in st. 1, l.
3 there is a [,]; "Daughter of the Vale"
in st. 2, l. 4 is not capitalized; in st.
3, l. 2 "fruit" is followed by a
[?], and the [:)]after "beauty"
in l. 3 is replaced by a [,]; st. 4, l. 4
reads " that links...". It
is also in the Notebook (NB15) with
minor differences, and in Selections
(S 8).
The Dirge 20. "Why should we toil..."
[14]
This sonnet (IM 15/20) is also present in
the Notebook (NB 4) with minor differences
except that the two triplets are pulled together
to form a sixain..
The Dirge 21. "No country..."
[15]
This poem (IM 15/21) is also present in the
Notebook (NB 12) with several discrepancies
in wording.
The Dirge 23. "Yes, as I ruminate..."
[16]
This poem (IM 15/23) was published in Canadian
Forum XII (April 1932) as no. XII of "From
the Dirge" with the following discrepancies:
stanza two is omitted; after "withal"
in st. 1, l. 4 there is a [.], and "not"
in st. 4, l. 1 is followed by a [:].
The Dirge 24. "I wish I had..."
[17]
This poem (IM 15/24) was published in Canadian
Forum XII (April 1932) as no. XIII of
"From the Dirge" in identical form.
In the Notebook (NB 32) it is pasted
over with NB 31 which is represented as IM
15/30 below ("No, do not speak..."),
and has eleven monographs drawn alongside.
Next to NB 32, there is the interesting note:
"Jane Atkinson by Andrew R. Rutherford."
The Dirge 26. "Faith..."
[18]
This poem (IM 15/26) was published in Canadian
Forum XII (April 1932) as no. XIV of "From
the Dirge" with these discrepancies:
after "key" in st. 3, l. 1, and
after "deed" in st. 4, l. 3 there
is a [,]; st. 5, l. 3 features " stood
gasping...", while in l. 4 " itself..."
reads " herself...". The poem
also exists in the Notebook (NB 23)
with minor changes in the last two stanzas.
The Dirge 28. "What will this mean..."
[19]
The first six stanzas of this poem (IM 15/28)
were published in Canadian Forum XII
(April 1932) as no. XV of "From the Dirge"
with these discrepancies: after "instinct"
in st. 3, l. 1, there is no [,]; "races"
in st. 4, l. 2 is followed by a [:]. - The
last four stanzas are presented as a separate
sonnet as FD XVI. - Like FD 15, the Notebook
(NB 34) shows, with minor changes in punctuation,
only st.1-6. The first four of these are
covered with NB 33 (below as IM 15/29, "Who
would have told me...").
[20]
The final four stanzas of IM 15/28 form a
sonnet, which was published as "From
the Dirge" no. XVI with one minor discrepancy
in punctuation: in the first quatrain, l.
3, there is no [,] between "long, long".
- Since this sonnet has independent status
as FD 16, and exists nowhere else as such,
it is featured below on p. 178 as one of the
Unique Poems.
The Dirge 29. "Who would have told me..."
[21]
This poem (IM 15/29) is also present in the
Notebook (NB 33) where it covers stanzas
1-4 of NB 34 which is represented above as
IM 15/28 ("What will this mean...").
It is repeated on the next page of the Notebook
(following the final, sixth stanza of NB 34)
in a heavily corrected version affecting the
last two quatrains.
The Dirge 30. "No, do not speak to me..."
[22]This
poem (IM 15/30) was published in Canadian
Forum XII (April 1932) as "From the
Dirge XVII" with one discrepancy in punctuation:
after "issue" in st. 1, l. 2 features
a [.]. The last stanza is omitted. - All four
stanzas (the last one being heavily corrected)
are also present in the Notebook (NB
31) with minor changes in punctuation. They
are pasted over NB 32 or IM 15/24 ("I
wish I had a voice..."). Alongside, there
are eleven attempts at various monograms,
some using Grove's initials similar to those
featured on the cover of In Search of Myself
(1946), others involving those of his wife
and daughter. NB 32 underneath has the Rutherford
suggestion mentioned in the context of IM
15/24 above.
The Dirge 31. "I know a valley..."
[23]
This poem (IM 15/31) is also present in the
Notebook (NBLL 2) on a loose sheet
with 14 stanzas. The first seven differ only
in the last line of st. 5. The others form
the next poem, namely IM 15/32 below.
The Dirge 32. "She, who has given life..."
[24]
This poem (IM 15/32) continues IM 15/31 on
a loose leaf in the Notebook (NBLL
3). Only st. 7, l. 3 is different in wording.
Since the next IM poem is numbered XXXIII,
no. XXXII is implied here. This number is
omitted in the In Memoriam typescript.
The Dirge 33. "What wafts the wind..."
[25]
The variant of this poem (IM 15/33) in Miscellaneous
Poems (MP 10) is entitled Night Thoughts.
Apart from minor discrepancies of punctuation
limited to stanza 4, it has the noteworthy
reference to Shelley in the motto.
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